The watchstanders dispatched a crew aboard a 25-foot Response Boat – Small from the station to assist.

The crew arrived on scene, transferred the man from the Crystal Dawn to the Coast Guard boat and took him to the station, where he was met by awaiting Dare County emergency medical services personnel and taken to the Outer Banks Hospital.

“Although only a 14-minute case from start to finish, this case displayed all of the elements of a successful medevac,” said Petty Officer 2nd Class Jason Steinhoff, the coxswain of the RB-S. “Excellent teamwork was displayed by the crew as they assisted the 18-year-old patient down a small and precarious Jacob’s ladder to the response boat.”